thrust
Definitions
General English
- noun the act of suddenly pushing something strongly
- noun a force which pushes someone or something
- verb to push something somewhere suddenly and hard
General Science
- noun a force in the crust of the earth that squeezes and so produces folds
- verb to push something suddenly with force
Aviation
- noun a force produced by a propeller, jet or rocket
Construction
- The amount of force or push exerted by or on a structure. Sometimes the horizontal component of that force.
- In an arch, the resultant force normal to any cross section of the arch.
Military
- noun an advance
- verb to move forward with force
Origin & History of “thrust”
Thrust was borrowed
from Old Norse
thrýsta ‘thrust, compress’. It probably goes
back ultimately to the Indo-European
base *
trud- ‘push, press’, whose
other descendants
include Latin
trūdere ‘thrust’ (
source of
English abstruse, intrude, etc) and probably
also English
threat.
